loves
battle, martial encounters, the vivifying panache of conflict. Yet his interests
lie much more with Aphrodite than with Nike, Goddess of Victory, (as a child,
he was taught to dance by Priapus!). Homer, and with him all politically correct
occidental thought, try to demote him from the Olympian Club, as a second rate
incurable social case. While this exclusion goes on, war is taken over by the
Gods of greed, hate and intolerance. Specialists tend to agree that he is the
most repressed of all Gods today and that it is high time to listen to what he
has to say. (From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

director
of contemporary opera and music-theatre at the Banff Centre (Canada) is currently
vocal director of Jackie O, a new opera by Michael Daugherty. One of the world's
best known extended voice teachers, he navigated through the 60s art scene underworld,
the avant-garde theatre of the 70s, and emerged with a unique approach to voice-theatre.
Described as having "the noble bearing, the sureness and beauty of a lion",
he is also an experienced performer, singer, and now writer. He will read extracts
from a collection of vocal encounters. (From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

is
rather blood thirsty in the Iliad; she calmed down in the Odyssey, except when
it came to slaughtering Penelope's suitors! Daddy's daughter (she leapt out of
Zeus' head fully armoured), first of her class according to Homer, she was also
Freud's favorite. This fabulous martial maid became a "one woman vice squad",
and top model of civilising colonial empires, ('white' ones, of course!): Paris,
Vienna, Brussels, London, where she oversees the City from the top of the Bank
of England, and even New York, under the surprisingly dour features of the Statue
of Liberty. (From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

the
Goddess Eris, mistress of strife, antagonism and enmity, started the Trojan war
because she was not invited to a wedding. (Would you invite her to yours?). She
is very likely to turn up at a Festival dedicated to "The Enemy". One
of her favorite tools is the sharp tongue of criticism, and Homer says that "once
she begins she cannot stop". Alchemists offered the following advice when
confronted with the unbearable crowing of the Black Raven: "cut off its head
and put it in your pocket - never throw it away! The right context may come when
you can bear to listen to what it has to say".

dancer,
choreographer, is one of the world's ultimate alchemists of movement. His master
classes are an eloquent revelation of what makes a 'moving' body: gesture, breath,
ecstatic skin and flying bones, lyrical muscle and the necessary dose of narcissism.
As a performer and writer, he has become France's dance ambassador all over the
world. He recently inaugurated the Centre for Study and Research in Contemporary
Dance at his beautiful Mas de la Dance in Provence. (From "The Enemy"
brochure, 1997)

the
absolute enemy, is actually quite relative and takes many forms: for Christianity,
it is Paganism. For the Olympians, it would rather be the Titans, beings with
souls of steel, psychopaths devoid of feelings or boundaries, like today's cathodic
cops and their 3000 killings a minute on TV. As for Pan, his enemy is probably
still the Pope. (From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

is
the kind of woman you like to stay in your house: she creates space and uncovers
or lays to rest old allies or new enemies. Dancer, intrepid explorer, she braves
her battles, be it with mosquitoes, rats or monkeys in meditation with the Dalai
Lama, or a black-belt ex-boyfriend. Since the last festival she has followed the
shamanic paths through Mexico and Lapland, and found her roots in the Trinidad
melting-pot. She deals with the occult creatures in your shadow with an agile
and exotic touch. (From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

"psyche's
scribe", writer, therapist and classicist from Minnesota is a map-maker in
the territory of Women's Studies, who took her first detour into Enemy Land with
Broodmales, a book about takeover-from-within strategies of couvade. Since then
she has incurred the wrath of several Immortal males who insist they don't want
to be pregnant - Ogoon, Hephaestus, Tubal-Cain. Ever serene under pressure, Nor
is listening through their flash & thunder and taking discrete notes on what
could be the self-annihilating climax of the War Gods at the end of the current
era. (From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

Her
lecture at the '99 Festival in New Orleans, Hermes, the God with the
Keyhole Aura, inspired the theme On
Gossip (Ireland 2000). "Psyche's scribe", writer, therapist,
and imaginal mythologist from Minnesota, she is a map-maker in the territory of
women's studies. Her lectures on the mysterious Dionysian goings-on in Pompeii
have been heard from Vilnius to San Francisco. Moving into dramaturgy, collaborating
with Archipelago theatre director Ellen Hemphill, she has produced
three stunning pieces. The fourth, SNOW, is having its premiere
in May, and a fifth is in the making. (From "On Gossip" brochure, 2000)

is
the daughter of, guess who? Aphrodite and Ares! and, of course, her name comes
from harmozein (=to fit together). This gives her a lot more character
than her contemporary image of sweetness and light, advertising environmentally
friendly margarine. She deals basically with extremes, and don't forget, Dionysos
was her grandson: she married Cadmus to found the ill-fated house of Thebes -
which is as far from New Age harmonics as you can get! (From "The Enemy"
brochure, 1997)

(1927
- 1975). His work with the vision of the eight octave voice led him to very different
frontiers than those of other charismatic theatre directors of the 60s. He concentrated
on the psychological 'inner' transformation of the actor within an intense communitarian
setting, and, sharing the time's redemptionist zeal, claimed the dismantling of
the barriers between theatre and therapy. His Roy Hart Theatre, founded in the
landmark year of 1968, played an important role in the early voice and theatre
training years of Mayer, Armstrong, Wise and Pardo. An extraordinary vocalist
and performer, he inspired (and often quarreled with) composers like Stockhausen,
Henze and Maxwell-Davies. (From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

Goddess
of the three ways (tri-via), travels with a flock of suicides and freshly killed
souls that she uses to make daimones. She likes owls, howling dogs and
household rubbish. If you are out after dark, invoke her, for she can take you
through the dark changes. Some swear she wears black underwear. (From the "Magic"
brochure, 1995)

saw
enemies everywhere, so tried to turn the world into a safe suburbia. Never finishing
his labours in time (like shooting Viet Congs well into the 80s), only once did
he doubt his mission: when crashing his way into the Underworld. Neither club,
nor arrows, nor strangleholds seemed to work there. Hermes tried to point out
that he was shooting at the DEAD: IMAGES. (From "The Enemy" brochure,
1997)

god
of high magic and profound secrets, is young Hermes' big brother. Product of an
incestuous marriage between an Egyptian dog who can write and see in the dark
and a Greek pickpocket, he has been keeping the library of hte soul's sectrets
for three thousand years.(From the "Magic" brochure,
1995)

American
writer and psychoanalyst, James Hillman is the founder of Archetypal Psychology
and the world's most renowned Jungian psychoanalyst. Having been director of studies
of the C.G.Jung Institut of Zurich until 1974, his work deepens and questions
the practice and theoretical inheritance of C.G.Jung. One of its characteristics,
besides its exceptional literary quality, is a cultural wealth that links depth
psychology, the inheritance of Freud and Jung, with Western traditions of the
imagination, from mythology and neoplatonism to the contemporary arts, poetry,
dance and theatre. His more recent writings, like "We've had one hundred
years of psychoanalysis, and the world is getting worse", question with great
humour and radicality the way his own work is used today, accusing today's intelligentia,
especially in America, of abandoning politics for the sake of therapy. His "The
Soul's Code" (1997) has been a best-seller throughout the world.

James
Hillman was one of the main speakers at the Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzerland;
he has been invited to lecture at the main American Universities, and was made
citizen of honour of the town of Florence, for his contribution to the importance
of Florentine Renaissance thought. He is honorary president of Pantheatre, has
been an inspiring presence in most of Pantheatre's cultural and performing events
since 1982. He also invited Enrique Pardo to contribute to Robert Bly's Mens'
Movement in its early days in California and the U.K.

Author,
translator, lecturer and consulting diviner, he has worked with oracle texts,
myths and archetypes for more than thirty years. He was Co-Director of the Eranos
Yi Ching Project and helped to pioneer a depth-psychological approach
to divination. He has danced, acted and choreographed professionally. His latest
books are Ta Chuan: The Great Treatise and The Oracle of Kuan Yin,
Goddess of Compassion. Consulting oracle to the Festival, he currently lives
in North Wales where he is working on a new book, The Classic of Dreams,
and makes dinner for traveling ghosts-and-spirits. (2001 - from the 9th Myth and
Theatre presentation)

Stephen
Karcher, Ph.D is an internationally known scholar, writer, translator, lecturer
and consultant. He was Director of Research at the Eranos Foundation, Ascona,
Switzerland, and has published many books, translations, and scholarly articles
in the field of comparative mythology, divination, depth psychology and religious
experience, including The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change (Harper Collins), The
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Divination (Harper Collins), Working with Change:
How to Use the I Ching (Harper Collins), The Oracle of Kuan Yin, Goddess of Compassion
(Little, Brown), and Symbols of Love (Little, Brown). His newest book, Myths for
Change, will be published next year. He was a professional dancer and choreographer
for several years and has trained and performed in New York, Toronto, Montreal
and Vancouver. He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature and Archetypal Psychology.
(2002 - from the Granada Forum presentation.)

Internationally
acclaimed voice teacher; co-founded Shakespeare and Company (USA). Her
books: Freeing the Natural Voice and Freeing Shakespeare's Voice,
are classics in the field. She has directed workshops at previous Myth and
Theatre Festivals and entered into a Linklater/Pardo conspiracy which resulted
in a production entitled The Shakespeare Betrayal, directed by Pardo
in which Linklater embodied the illegitimate half-sister of the Earl of Oxford
-- revealing the real authors of the canon. Despite all this, she was appointed
in 1998 to the Chair of Theatre at Columbia University, New York. (From the "On
Gossip" brochure, 2000).

hate
him or love him, is a perfect provocative speaker for a conference on "The
Enemy". With his West Point background and bearing, his lectures at the Festival
have assaulted sensibilities whether he spoke on Voodoo, de Sade, or Pornography
(93) or on Jesus the Magician or the occult Casanova (95). At "The Enemy"
festival he presented a lecture on "The Enemy in the Noble Savage",
and another one titled "I am the Enemy of COOL" (quoted in the editorial
of the 1999 New Orleans Festival). The editor of Spring Journal, he is also a
translator of medieval and renaissance texts, writer, critic and the enemy of
bad food.

On the photo opposite, during the 2002 May Malérargues Symposium, in an exquisite "thinking" moment, with Nor Hall (centre) and Linda Wise (front)

Venice
Manley, a close friend and collaborator of Pantheatre, died August 31st, 2004.
The following short biographies are drawn from projects in which she was involved.
They are a tribute to her professionalism and enterprise. Her voice will always
be with us.

Venice
Manley, 24 January 1934 - 31 August, 2004.

Merry
and bright and bonny and blithe an irrepressible songbird was she and
deeply missed. A foster child and native Londoner, Venice was born singing, and
as a child sang for a penny in the street. Aged 11 she was a soloist in one of
Benjamin Britten's pieces. At 13 she lost her leg from below the knee in an accident.
Singing for pleasure continued, through her teens and into her early 20's when
she began working with the Tinkers in Ireland as part of a social work scheme
- she grew to love them and their songs, and later worked closely with Yul Brynners'
gypsy projects. It was in Dublin that she first had more formal voice and musical
training.

Her
voice remained incandescent and never lost it's lovely, lilting natural quality
- A wonderful teacher, she also sang for charity, formed an a capella group in
London: "Kite"; she sang and taught her way through festivals and workshops,
in England, Europe, Canada and the USA and in recent years met and worked with
Georgian singers and musicians, spending several weeks there last October. These
last years in London she directed a Georgian choir.

Songs
from every corner of the world seemd to find her, and she them - she taught a
capella polyphonic singing with great verve and grace - always by ear and always
acknowledging where they came from and what they were about, the human element
ever present.

A
painful bout with cancer several years ago didn't diminish her joie de vivre and
capacity for delicious gossip. This year the cancer came back to claim her
Perhaps though, it's just a metamorphosis, a sea-change, bringing a certain something
whenever a song is heard, or sung along with a lilting giggle and a whoop
of joy . (Obituary by Liza Mayer - for VASTA - Voice Teachers Association.)

Singer,
Singing Teacher , Chorale Director - the grand-daughter of a Gaiety Girl, was
born in London. She began her singing career in London, aged 11, when Benjamin
Britten chose her as soloist for his "St Nicholas Cantata". She went
on to study solfege and classical singing, and also began a life-long interest
in folkmusic ("World Music") whilst working with gypsies in Ireland.
Ms Manley has worked closely with Frankie Armstrong, Helen Chadwick, Isaye Barnwell
of "Sweet Honey in the Rock", the Giving Voice Project in Wales,
The Natural Voice Association, The Roy Hart Theatre and Pantheatre. She taught
regularly at the Guildhall School of Music, the Philippe Gaulier School, The International
Workshop Festival, and Coventry's Triangle Theatre, as well as in continental
Europe: The Odin Theatre, the USA and Canada - She sang with the a capella group:
"Kite", in the UK and Europe, and directed a choir of Georgian music:
"Maspindzeli". In 2001 Ms. Manley and her Georgian choir were invited
to participate in a unique festival of polyphonic music at the Roundhouse: "Because
I Sing", by the composers: Orlando Gough and Richard Chew (Director of "The
Shout"), and choreographer: Alain Platel. In September 2002, Ms. Manley and
Mazpindzeli toured Georgia.

Venice
Manley was a lyric soprano and singing teacher from London. Militating with Irish
tinkers nurtured her curiosity about their music, and her irrepressible gathering
instinct turned to collecting songs and chants from all over the world. Grand-daughter
of a London Gaiety Girl, she sings with the a capella group KITE and has recently
performed in 'The Soundhouse', a project directed by Meredith Monk. She has coached
at the Odin Teatret, the National Theatre, Giving Voice Project (CPR Wales), the
Roy Hart Centre (France). (From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

an
outrageous backbencher (constantly harassing the PM William Shakespeare), and
brilliant graduate of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, is a specialist in medieval and
early Renaissance culture: "Was There Intelligence Before Shakespeare?"
He originally proposed "Love Thine Enemy", but then asked to have the
"love" crossed out and replaced with "know", explaining: "I
fear more what my enemy knows about me, than what I know about my enemy".
His talk will consider knowing one's enemy, drawing on Sade and Bakhtin. Founding
member, actor and musician with the legendary Medieval Players, he is Artistic
Director of the International Workshop Festival, London.
(From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

or
at least the European mole, talpa europaea, "lives in a many-chambered
underground establishment with a bolt run tunnel for emergency exits". Poor
eyesight makes her a model initiate (outer eyes veiled, inner eye opened) and
she tracks current, collective trends with her nose for what's happening. She
needs to be closely watched and frequently consulted during the Festival as her
Coyote husband (a charmer who's also a vicious, drunken scavenger) can constellate
rampant antagonism and confrontation for the heck of it - especially between the
men! (From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

looms
as the father and strategic warlord of the Nordic Gods. He wins battles via dark
magical tricks rather than relying on heart and muscle. He gained wisdom by managing
to sacrifice himself to himself, and became the demanding protector of the arts.
He has a propensity for magico-acrobatic trainings: one can see him hanging upside-down
form the world tree for nine days at a time. (From "The Enemy" brochure,
1997)

was
promoted public enemy number one when he abducted the young President's widow
to his Greek island. Most of us, at the time, reacted like Demeter when Hades
(also called 'the millionaire'), drove off with Persephone in his black limousine
and made her the queen of his 'night clubs'. Yet, when Jackie O died recently,
eulogies were respectful, even admiring. Puritanical attitudes to Sacra Moneta
(Goddess Money) were part of the problem, and her temple, Wall Street, remains
'the' enemy to those whom Americans are now calling 'euromarxists'. (From "The
Enemy" brochure, 1997)

has
never shied away from using her prolific energy, nor her position as one of Sweden's
most important film and theatre directors, to speak out on social issues or to
take radical artistic risks. "Several of my shows have been flops. Not because
of carelessness... they have been about difficult things, strange things..."
she states with characteristic generosity and fighting spirit. With her company
Unga Klara, she has directed masterpiece productions and revolutionized theatre
for young people with performances like Medea's Children. Two of her films have
won prizes at the Créteil Women's Film Festival: The Mozart Brothers '89 (also
shown at Myth and Theatre that year), and Speak Up, Its So Dark (subtitled "Auschwitz
Exists") in 93, amidst furore. (From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

Pandora,
supposedly, charmed them out of their wits and got the best and worst from ALL
the gods (pan-dora: all gifted)! Her beauty and curiosity wrought havoc
to Prometheus ideologies, though his followers still think Hope can save
humanity. Enrique Pardo is looking into Pandoras Box and the cast
of this production will be stirring the gossip in his workshop.

like
Pan, is a child of Hermes (Hermaphroditus completes
the 'hermetic' triangle). His mother is said to have been none other than Aphrodite,
who abandoned him at birth, finding his endowments just too grotesque. Keeper
of gardens (gardener and exhibitionist scarecrow), Late Antiquity vowed this phallic
God a fervent, prophylactic and apotropaic cult: witness Petronius' and Fellini's
Satyricon. (From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

Associate
Professor of Classical Studies at Loyola University in New Orleans, she teaches
Latin, Greek, Classical Archaeology, ancient mystery cults and Pandora's Daughters,
a course on women in antiquity. She has served for two years as interim associate
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Prior to that she was chair of the Department
of Classical Studies. Dr. Rodriguez has taught abroad in Italy and in Greece both
during the academic year and summer. The only thing she likes more than gossip
is chocolate! (From the "On Gossip" brochure, 2000)

left
her career as a Speech Language Pathologist to study mythology at the Pacifica
Graduate Institute after discovering that her chronically wilting flowers bloomed
once Priapus was around. It did not take long for her to discover that the enemies
of her now favorite god, were everywhere "from church ladies to feminazis
to the emasculated slaves of suburban culture". In her writings on Priapus
you may discover the God's salutary and salubrious properties, and the fact that
it is not "the Goddess" with all her birthings that will save the planet,
but the God of phalloi. (From "The Enemy" brochure, 1997)

will
lead us through the underworlds and corridors of power of modern psychologies.
How did a movement that promised a new era in personal relations where enmity
and strife would be allayed with conscious understanding, give rise to the new
mafias, war lords and drug barons of psychology? Historian of psychology at the
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, he is editor of Flournoy's
"From India to the Planet Mars", Jung's seminar on "The Psychology
of Kundalini Yoga", "Speculations After Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy
and Culture" (with Michael Munchow) and "The Past of an Illusion"
(with Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen) forthcoming. (From "The Enemy" brochure,
1997)

is
the fire screen of iceberg mythologies, constantly battling out in the cold, protecting
the frail boundaries of humans against the roving giants. Glorified into slavery
by Stalin, who turned him into a proletarian Rambo, this earnest, passionate,
hard-working hulk is being rediscovered as a friendly, even sexy, symbol of power,
even though his hammer adorns the piercings of most Swedish punks. (From "The
Enemy" brochure, 1997.)